ESTAS has announced that SDL Property Auctions has become an executive partner for the 2021 Forum and Awards sponsored by Coadjute. In what is likely to be the first major live event for the property industry in two years, the UK’s best agents, conveyancers and...
An estate agency has sponsored an eco-art exhibition that involves 100 life-sized elephant sculptures in a central London park. Savills has sponsored Elephant Family’s CoExistence over the summer and its ‘herd’ is named The Original Dwellers, after the indigenous...
It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a private landlord. Today’s Daily Mail reports that the bank is close to securing a block in Peterborough, and could start letting them next month. Under a...
The man behind an early version of deposit replacement for the private rental sector has now set up a service encouraging tenants to complain to agents and landlords and seek compensation. Ajay Jagota - who used to run the now-defunct Dlight deposit-free renting...
A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated against. Due diligence firm Homeppl claims that this is because referencing typically relies on credit files - therefore...
Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears to be squaring up for a fight. In spring 2020 the Scottish Government introduced a temporary ban on the enforcement of eviction orders in the...
The government has extended the ‘special arrangements’ for Right To Rent checks - these will now be in force until September 1. The extension comes following the government’s announcement last week to extend the date for the easing of lockdown restrictions and social...
Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition urging rent caps for private tenants and hefty tax rises for second home owners. The online petition on the Change.org site says Cornwall is on the verge of a homelessness crisis, worsened by what it calls the current...
Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday the First Secretary to the Treasury, Steve Barclay, announced that commercial landlords will be unable to...
London’s rental market is witnessing a strong recovery in spite of the pandemic, according to the latest analysis by lettings agency Chestertons. Comparing May to April, the agency’s 31 branches across the capital confirmed a cumulative 17 per cent increase in new...
